At the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily's ancient city of Catania, utility Enel has begun work on a giant factory with the ambition of helping to end China's dominance of the solar market and to galvanise Italy's under-developed south.
3Sun plant 15-fold is especially relevant as the European Union seeks to speed up the switch to renewables and end its dependence on Russian gas.
The company says Chinese production is likely to be cheaper, though it aims to close the gap. It also says its panels are better and that 3Sun will be the European Union's largest producer of high performance bifacial solar panels by 2024. The decision to base the project on an island on the southern tip of Europe was made, he said, because Enel had already developed expertise there.
The European Union as a whole aims to reach almost 600 gigawatts of solar energy by 2030 and the number of installations is increasing. Industry group SolarPower Europe estimates panels that would generate at least 40 GW have been installed this year and that growth will exceed 270 GW by 2025.
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